Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relief of war-torn countries, Canada appropriated $77,000,000 for UNRRA. Last week, on the eve of an UNRRA convention in Montreal's Windsor Hotel, Dominion Delegate Brooke Claxton reported...
Lesser parts are competently, though not brilliantly performed. James Monks, of "The Eve of Saint Mark," does the best job of the minor players as Cassio, another victim of Iago's treachery. Uta Hagen is a very frail and very dainty, but also a very spiritless Desdemona. Margaret Webster, who directed the present revival, plays Emilia, Iago's wife, completely straight. She adds not one touch of her own which would let the audience know whether she is working for or against her villainous mate...
...been heard from. Said the Tribune, in interplanetary vein: "If that world [hit by the runaway rocket] happens to be inhabited by people who have reached our own level of 'civilization,' they may regard it as an act of hostility. . . .Are we on the eve of war between worlds before we have got ourselves tidied up on earth...
...eve of TIME-by-Air's third birthday, we put this blunt question to all the American ambassadors and consuls south of the Rio Grande, to the presidents and foreign ministers of the 20 Latin American republics -and to quite a large group of the most important American businessmen in the countries with which U.S. commercial ties seem strongest...
...months, Governor Warren had been consistent in his firm stand against campaigning for the nomination. But he had never finally shut the door against a draft. Not until the very eve of the balloting in Chicago, when Oregon asked to nominate him, did he give a final...